Spending too much time on my computer.

V4nger

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After my parents have threatened to stop paying for my private lessons outside of school and school work has been a problem, I have come to realise that I spend far too much time on my computer. Literally 6 hours a day upwards. I just find that I cannot be bothered to do anything else but look on the internet or play games. And I forget things because I am thinking about games or the internet. Put it like this and it looks like a serious addiction. I was really hoping that you could maybe give me some advice to get me off my arse and do something. Because I am finding it quite hard at the moment. And I don't want to be spending all of the summer holiday inside...

So advice is welcome guys! And please don't give me crap like "get a girlfriend" or whatever. Serious answers please. Not that I'm expecting any from GD... :rolleyes:
 
I used to be the same when I was a kid, I just decided it was time to stop being a hermit and started going out and socialising with my friends.

Computer's are evil things and suck the life out of you, especially when you start posting on forums and using msn etc... because you think you "need" to be around to see the updates.

Many a night I have spent hammering the F5 key :(
 
you are a lazy teenager, your last few years of easy life are about to end, before your parents kick you out and you have to work 12hrs a day in burger king and live in a stinking little flat...

make the most of your PC because soon you will not be able to afford it, or beer, or holidays...

you will dream of the good old days when you had a 6 hr school day then played games and drank pop.....

either that or sell your PC and buy one that is too slow to play games... if you cannot keep off the internet install something like http://www.k9webprotection.com and limit your internet access... then forget the password (or get someone else to set it)
 
I had a problem for a while, totally addicted to playing MOHAA multiplayer when it came out. I honestly spent hours of my life, day in day out playing that and nothing else. I think what needs to happen is that you just need to force yourself off the computer and get out of the house and do something. It may feel uncomfortable at first, certainly I felt almost homesick every time I was away from my pc for a couple of days. You just have to break through the barrier. Then I went to uni and EVERYTHING changed! You realise that life can be sooo much fun if you want it to be.

Still play games, but only in moderation and never to the point of addiction. Those days are long gone.
 
get some friends
go out
drink vodka and **** on your dog
profit ????


Dont you have any mates??
 
block all the facebook etc sites, they are crap and your live your life through others.

Go out for a walk, get on a random bus etc
 
Girlfriend is the only answer really, i'm at the age where all my mates are in relationships, buying houses etc and cant afford to play out like they used to. I broke up with my Mrs last August and trying to save up for a house deposit on my own which is a pretty crappy situation so I find myself in all week on my PC playing games which in the short term I enjoy and i'm saving money instead of urinating it up the wall but in the long term I cant help but think i'm wasting my life, doesnt help when the women I meet are only interested in money, houses and cars, even the wild snorlacks's are gold diggers round here
 
I'm the same and nearly failed my A-levels because of it :o

Got into uni doing something i love so its not like it matters. Having mates doesnt come into it, no one 'plays out' like we used to do 5 years ago. Its all evening drinking and sat on the pc during the day. Pretty fail. Looking for a job to try and fix that.
 
I guess its like the above really, girlfriend, job, maybe take up a hobby even if its like swimming or cycling (good exercise aswell)

Even if you go out with mates though, surely you going to get bored as theres not that much to do? Not got things to talk about constantly like girls do :p
 
Go out with your mates. Throw a BBQ, go to the park, visit what you've wanted to visit, see what events are being thrown in your town and go to them.

I used to be in your position, on some days I do sit on the computer all day, but then I thought "You know what. I haven't been to so and so or done this etc." Life gets more interesting this way.

Or take up a sport. That'll get you out of the house and you'll socialise more.
 
Good thread V4nger

I built my first PC 2 months ago and since then I have spent so much time on my PC that I don't think I have gone out much either. Mind you I was learning CAD so that took a lot of time aswell coupled with the fact that I am having hard time finding a good job as I am a uni graduate.
Also I agree that outdoor life has virtually vanished. If you are in school then it's school and then home and viceversa. If you are in work then it's work-home routine. If you are unemployed well then you mainly stay at home.

I remember 20 years ago when I was a kid that I used to spend 80% of my free time outside my home playing with neighbour kids or playing in the park. I used to feel so much freedom and used to have such a good time. But times have changed so much. Now there is quantity in life but not much quality
 
i used to be the same too. spending day and night on the pc. when i finished work i used to come home, and be straight on it. one day i just clicked and thought... i CBA to do this anymore. started going out with new friends on weekends and making loads more in the town on a night out and stuff. a few years down the line of doing that, i own my own house, have a great girlfriend, and have 2 kids :D now i dont get ENOUGH time on the pc! heh. just start going out more i guess is what im trying to say. socialising in a bar with a few mates is a great way to start. obviously dependent on age! :p
 
WingZero30 said:
I remember 20 years ago when I was a kid that I used to spend 80% of my free time outside my home playing with neighbour kids or playing in the park. I used to feel so much freedom and used to have such a good time. But times have changed so much. Now there is quantity in life but not much quality
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This is the problem. Is only like 5 or less years ago for me but it would be something like come home from school, play outside till 6, eat dinner, play out or go to a mates to play gamecube for a few hours, tv, bed, repeat. Now its more like wake up, gym, pc, dinner, pc, pub, bed XD
 
8+ hours at work and 6+ hours at home, that's my daily use of computers. And i don't feel like it's a negative thing in my life.
 
Gets boring after a while, so enjoy it while you can but just get the education done. Or do what I am doing, sodded off to Thailand for 6 months to Train Muay Thai boxing 6 days a week.

Games? No chance!
 
Not much changed for me when I got my own place and started working, I still went home to go on the PC, there's a reason though. I like it!

Didn't stop me seeing my friends, going out etc etc, only one thing did, getting an insane girlfriend!

Personally, none of these "going out to pubs" etc does it for me, usually it entails drinking or socialising but, I don't drink and can already talk to my friends! I don't have a need to meet new people so it would be utterly pointless and more waste of a time then staying on my pc :)
 
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